![]() In 1940, Cage and his wife performed several of his compositions at Reed, and in 1949 Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham presented a double-billed performance of music and dance at Reed’s Botsford Auditorium. It is especially fitting that FearNoMusic and YU would stage a significant centennial tribute to Cage in part because the composer had Portland ties dating back to his marriage in the 1930s to Xenia Kashevaroff, a Reed College art student. Compositions will be presented simultaneously throughout the building from 8 to 11pm, allowing visitors to move freely from one space to another. In one example of performance placement, Litany for the Whale, a call-and-response composition to be performed by baritone Kevin Walsh and chorus master and conductor of the Portland Opera Robert Ainsely, will be presented in YU’s large garage space, chosen because of its open, cavernous, reverberant qualities. Performances will be arranged in areas of the Yale Union building to create unique interplay between the physical space and the performance. 4’33”, the iconic – some might say notorious – completely silent work from 1952 in which a pianist sat at a piano but played nothing for four and a half minutes will be performed by the entire FearNoMusic ensembleġ00 Years of John Cage is a unique collaboration between YU, a contemporary art center, and FearNoMusic, a contemporary music ensemble.Litany for the Whale, a call-and-response work reminiscent of Gregorian chant will be performed by renown baritone Kevin Walsh and Robert Ainsely, chorus master and conductor of the Portland Opera.Postcard from Heaven, a composition of improvisatory ragas for up to twenty harpists first presented in honor of Cage’s 70th birthday, will be performed by over a dozen local harpists, including Jenny Lindner, Principle Harp for the Portland Opera Orchestra and Oregon Ballet Theater, and Jennifer Ironside, Principle Harp for the Oregon Symphony.Lecture on Nothing, the iconoclastic 1949 piece in which Cage famously declared “I have nothing to say, and I am saying it” will be read by one of FearNoMusic’s guest artists for the evening, Oregon Symphony Music Director Carlos Kalmar.A full list of works and performers is attached. The program will include the following highlights. They range from early non-musical sound works to later experiments in indeterminacy and improvisation. The compositions featured in 100 Years of John Cage span almost a half-century. ![]() Other west coast programs planned for 2012 include those at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. He was the father of experimental music and his influence continues to be enormously important,” said Paloma Griffin, FearNoMusic’s artistic director.ġ00 Years of John Cage will be the premier Cage centenary event in the Pacific Northwest and joins those scheduled throughout the year by music and art centers in over a dozen countries around the world. ![]() “Like Beethoven did in his time, Cage took radical chances in his music and art and departed from the accepted course of twentieth century music. A lifelong collaborator with choreographers, artists, musicians, and other composers such as Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and Christian Wolff, Cage is widely regarded as a creator of revolutionary compositions that broke with tradition and radically expanded the field of modern and contemporary music. His creations included the use of silence, non-musical noise, appropriated sound, and extended technique-the non-standard use of musical instruments. John Cage was a composer, artist, and theorist whose groundbreaking work established him as a leading figure of the American avant-garde. The event, a highlight of contemporary music ensemble FearNoMusic’s twentieth anniversary season and YU’s second season of programs as a contemporary art center in Portland, celebrates the centennial birth of John Cage, a seminal twentieth century composer. Lecture on Nothing presented by Oregon Symphony Music Director Carlos KalmarįearNoMusic and YU are pleased to announce 100 Years of John Cage, an event featuring ten live performances of some of Cage’s most important compositions, presented throughout YU’s historic Yale Union building by FearNoMusic musicians and special guest artists. Ten seminal Cage compositions to be performed by renowned local musicians, including The premier Cage centenary event in the Pacific Northwest to be held FEBRUARY 17 AT YUĪs Portland joins worldwide celebrations of the iconic avant-garde composer throughout 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 24, 236-7996įearNoMusic AND YU PRESENT 100 YEARS OF JOHN CAGE
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